Micah 2:4

Young's Literal Translation 1862

In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

And David lamenteth with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son;

2 Chronicles 35:25

and Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah, and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day, and set them for a statute on Israel, and lo, they are written beside the lamentations.

Job 27:1

And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --

Isaiah 14:4

That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

Isaiah 24:3

Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:

Isaiah 6:11

And I say, `Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, `Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I have gone forth to the field, Then, lo, the pierced of the sword! And if I have entered the city, Then, lo, the diseased of famine! For both prophet and priest have gone up and down Unto a land that they knew not.

Jeremiah 4:13

Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled.

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.

Ezekiel 16:44

Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother -- her daughter!

Ezekiel 2:10

and He spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it `are' lamentations, and mourning, and wo!

Joel 1:13

Gird, and lament, ye priests, Howl, ye ministrants of the altar, Come in, lodge in sackcloth, ministrants of my God, For withheld from the house of your God hath been present and libation.

Joel 1:8

Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:

Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards `is' lamentation, For I pass into thy midst, said Jehovah.

Micah 1:15

Yet the possessor I do bring in to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, To Adullam come in doth the honour of Israel.

Micah 1:8

For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

Micah 2:10

Rise and go, for this `is' not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

Habakkuk 2:6

Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Zephaniah 1:2

I utterly consume all from off the face of the ground, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Numbers 23:18

And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear unto me, son of Zippor!

Numbers 23:7

And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `From Aram he doth lead me -- Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come -- curse for me Jacob, And come -- be indignant `with' Israel.

Numbers 24:15

And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor -- And an affirmation of the man whose eyes `are' shut --

Numbers 24:3

and he taketh up his simile, and saith: `An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor -- And an affirmation of the man whose eyes are shut --

Mark 12:12

And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

Deuteronomy 28:29

and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.